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Kiambu’s big landowners dump coffee for real estate boom
Top in the list of wealthy landowners who are converting their vast coffee estates into use for urban settlement is the family of Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (left), Kenyatta’s cousin, Njoroge Mungai and former attorney-general Charles Njonjo (right)
Kiambu’s big landowners, who have made a fortune growing and exporting coffee on the outskirts of Nairobi, are opening up the farms for real estate development targeting the housing market’s high level returns that have seen the value of land more than double in the past five years.
